At 12.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Chief Officer of the Coastguard stating that o fishing-boats were unable to enter the harbour. As there was a very rough sea, and a strong southerly gale was blowing, it was...
Travel the length and breadth of the Irish coastline and you will be greeted in almost every harbour of any size by the familiar blue-andorange livery of RNLI lifeboats.
At first this may come as no surprise, but between...
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LIFE-BOAT TAKES TWO BOATS IN TOW Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.54 on the evening of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Pertinence of Rochester had taken the cabin cruiser Istar,...
Sharing the work—and the enjoyment—in a husband and wife partnership, Alf and Joan Jenkins are joint honorary secretaries of Truro branch. They put their combined help behind such enterprising branch activities as a button auction which... - View image in PDF
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BROADSTAIKS. — Flares were shown from vessels off the North Foreland while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy squalls of hail, on the 27th January, and, in response, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton...
Sir Geoffrey and Lady Howe, and of course Budget, were among the visitors at Caterham and District branch's first dog show, held at Warlingham School Green last August Bank Holiday. Seen here with them are (I to r) Mrs Jeffcoate, branch... - View image in PDF
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—The fishing fleet put to sea early in the morning of the llth March, but the weather got bad, and by 11 A.M. all but three boats had returned. A strong east breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea and heavy showers of snow....
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 6.47 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1957, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that the Ryde police had reported a motor boat drifting off Sands Head buoy. The motor boat's engines ap- peared to have...
Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the night of the 24th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain super- intendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had reported red flares five miles north- east of the lightvessel. The life-boat City of...
125 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1870 At a time when the RNU'sinamie from legacies is under scrutiny it is interesting to look back to the Institution's earliest days ami the wn / in which lifeboat* were...
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